From a Royal manual typewriter to Acrobat and InDesign: A short history of Iron-Jawed Angels

My wife, Linda G. Ford,  has acquired the copyright to her 1991 book Iron-Jawed Angels in order to issue a reprint.  The book is not to be confused with the HBO film of the same name and and subject matter starring Hilary Swank and Angelica Huston.  But that is another story.  And maybe another post probably more appropriate for a copyright law discussion group.

Linda typed about a third of the book on a 1931 manual typewriter before switching to an IBM Selectric.  She did not think computers and word processors to be a good way to go.  The book was retyped in the late 80s or 1990 on a Mac or Apple computer and the pages were sent to the original publisher for printing.  

The book was eventually made into graphic page files and was never converted to machine readable text althought it has stayed in print until now.  That's how I came to this project and began learning Acrobat and InDesign.

The pictures are the Royal typewriter which we still own (but do not use!).  And the first and only existing page of the original manuscript typed on the Royal typewriter.